The temperature on October 22, 1904 was between 11.0 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of marriage August 20, 1930
The temperature on August 20, 1930 was between 7.4 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
April 18 » The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
June 1 » The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives.
July 7 » Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
August 7 » The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
September 17 » The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
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